"To do nothing at all is the..." - Quote by Oscar Wilde
To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.
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“If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing well. If it is worth having, it is worth waiting for. If it is worth attaining, it is worth fighting for. If it is worth experiencing, it is worth putting aside time for.”
“Ah, on what little things does happiness depend! I have read all that the wise men have written, and all the secrets of philosophy are mine, yet for want of a red rose is my life made wretched.”
“Philosophy is like a normal personal organizer, but it's smaller than a matchbox.”
More on Idleness
“The bees can abide no drones amongst them; but as soon as they begin to be idle, they kill them.”
“An industrious farmer occupies a more dignified place in the scale of beings...than a lazy lounger...too proud to work, and drawing out a miserable existence by eating on that surplus of other men's labor.”
“The reason of idleness and of crime is the deferring of our hopes.”